East Region Finals by Adam Shandler No. 1 Maryland 90, No. 2 Connecticut 82 CBS’s Jim Nantz had a busy evening. Not only did he have to call play-by-play for the Maryland-UConn East Regional Final, he also had to count all those ties and lead changes. Maybe you caught the […]
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East Second Round Recap
East Second Round Recap by Adam Shandler (1) Maryland 87, (8) Wisconsin 57 Juan More Time For Good Measure: Where were the Maryland Terrapins for the first 15 minutes of this second round game? The Terps couldn’t find the bottom of the bucket on 28 of their first 40 attempts […]
East Region Recap
East Region Recap by Adam Shandler From the other side of the bracket . . . (1) Maryland 85, (16) Siena 70 With all the upsets going on this weekend, I’m sure all us bracket nerds are relieved that 17-18 Siena didn’t pull off the biggest coup of the tournament. […]
East Region Recap
East Region Recap by Adam Shandler No. 4 Kentucky 83, No.13 Valparaiso 68 Keith Bogans bolstered his NBA resume tape by hitting 4 of 5 three pointers and scoring 21 points, 11 above his disappointing season average. Bogans had some help from usually reliable Tayshaun Prince, who despite a poor […]
East Region Play-In Game
Siena “Prosperous” by Adam Shandler Siena will go down in history as only the second team to play two NCAA tourney games and still finish with a losing record. The Saints, who won four straight games to win the MAAC title, squeaked by SWAC champ Alcorn State, 81-77, in Dayton […]
NCAA East Region 1
NCAA East Region 1 by Adam Shandler The Dreaded 64-65 Game: (Tuesday, March 12, 7 PM EST, Dayton, OH, ESPN) And the lucky winners are Alcorn State and Siena. Alcorn (20-9), the SWAC Champion, got to the Tuesday Night Pre-dance by beating Alabama State in the conference final, 70-67. Senior […]
Patriot League Notebook
Patriot League Tournament Wrap-up Crusdaders Capture Patriot League Holy Grail…Again. With an 18-14 record, a lock on first place throughout the regular season and players held over from their CAA days, American U. was the sensible pick to win the Patriot League Championship. But in DC on Friday, March 8, […]
Ivy League Wrap-Up
Ivy League Playoff Wrap-Up Not So Much “Penn Wins” as “Yale Loses” Yale tried to become the first team other than Princeton and Penn since 1988 to play their way into the tourney. It didn’t happen. On March 9th, in an Ivy playoff game hosted by Lafayette, Yale had their […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook Oy Vey! League This is why you have postseason tournaments in the first place. With Penn’s 64-48 win over Princeton at the Palestra on March 5, three teams in the Ivy League finished the regular season with 11-3 records: Penn, Princeton and Yale. Now the league must […]
Colonial Tournament Notebook
Colonial Tournament Notebook Seahawks are Conference Champions With a headline like that, you know for sure that you’re not reading an article on NFL.com. Yes, Jerry Wainwright’s UNCW team returns to the dance for the first time since 2000. Their road to the NCAA’s featured victories over James Madison and […]
